New developer update shows new Fiddlesticks and Volibear progress

Longtime League of Legends fans have been on the wait for any news or information or art regarding the visual gameplay updates (VGU) of the champions, FiddleSticks and Volibear.

The two champions have been notorious factors in the jungle, but have been both low priority champions in the vast pool available today. With this VGU, Riot intends to keep the main styles of the champions intact with moving them along in a new and yet familiar direction to keep true to the characters and igniting new interest in the old champions.

Each champion coming equipped with their own signature gameplay feels with FiddleSticks’s ambush ultimate rampaging on an engage, or Volibear’s unstoppable rampaging claw slashes and lighting fueled bites. Emphasizing these aspects will be key for the champions to feel impactful.

“[…] one of the concepts we’re exploring right now is the idea that Volibear refuses to be stopped by immobilizing effects. Instead, he converts effects like roots and stuns into self-slows,“ Lutz says.